The Prime Minister allegedly told Mike Duffy his actions weren't the issue, it was the perception that was important. Now the Prime Minister is confronted with the public perception that he knew more about the Duffy affair than he says he did.

Stephen Harper's backbenchers have real power in a slim majority, and there's nothing he can do about it — except learn to live with it. Plus Brent Rathgeber's re-election chances, Quebec's "strange view of secularism" and the shocking spectacle of helmetless soccer.